We have a 28 ft. trailer but I was only able to reserve a site with maximum allowable trailer length of 24 ft. Does anyone know how strict they are on the difference? The site says **The maximum allowable trailer length in this site is 24 feet, due to maneuverability**. I don't think there would be any problem for me to "maneuver" it into the spot, just wonder if they will stop me at the gate. Anyone run ito this before?

My brother in law puts their 22ft trailer into a site that says 12 ft. The site is plenty big enough but I suppose if he weren't an expert backer, it might be tough for someone to get it in. No one checks your trailer when you pull into the campground so unless you end up not being able to maneuver it into the site, you should be okay. The important thing is that you aren't sticking out into the road.

Probably won't be a problem but if you want my semi expert opinion, which campground and which site are you talking about? My guess is your brother put his trailer into site #43 in Lower Pines which has the 12 ft. trailer warning ,but we were able to put a 24 ft. trailer, an Expedition, and a 19 ft. mini motor home into. The max. trailer lengths were devised assuming it would be the first time someone would be pulling a trailer and had no idea how to back it up. But some sites are tricky to get into. So which site are you talking about??

I am concerned about the same thing. I have a 28' Airstream and tow vehicle for a site in upper pines. After booking the site online with 28' trailer in the search criteria I looked at the fine print stating trailers are a 24' max. Looks like they have that for all upper pines sites. This might be related to the roadways and not the site.

Upon reading the national park website on yosemite trailer camping they stated that they DON'T measure the trailer but if you can't fit into the site you will have to move on. You might also have to park your tow vehicle at curry village if that does not fit in the site unhooked.

Check out http://yosemitecampsites.com/ and look up your site. You'll get a photo of the site. I also searched google for my site and someone posted a vacation photo of my exact site with a massive class A motorhome in the site. I'm going for it.

Quotevitaminsea
I am concerned about the same thing. I have a 28' Airstream and tow vehicle for a site in upper pines. After booking the site online with 28' trailer in the search criteria I looked at the fine print stating trailers are a 24' max. Looks like they have that for all upper pines sites. This might be related to the roadways and not the site.

Upon reading the national park website on yosemite trailer camping they stated that they DON'T measure the trailer but if you can't fit into the site you will have to move on. You might also have to park your tow vehicle at curry village if that does not fit in the site unhooked.

Check out http://yosemitecampsites.com/ and look up your site. You'll get a photo of the site. I also searched google for my site and someone posted a vacation photo of my exact site with a massive class A motorhome in the site. I'm going for it.

I have put my 31 ft 5th wheel in a site that was designated for 35ft motorhomes. I parked my truck sideways in front.

Vitaminsea, what's your site number? We can help you out better if you provide a site # as many on this forum are quite familiar with the sites. Normally the trailer limitations have more to do with the access angle from road than the actual dimensions of the pad.

Vitamininsea, an old printout I have of pad sizes for sites shows that pad to be 22x22, with 7 ft. clearance behind the bumpers. This is a double wide site. The pictures show a considerable wide open space behind the back parking bumpers so you should be able to hang multiple feet of your trailer over past the bumpers, if you put it on the left side. The left side is probably longer than 22 ft. as they usually measured the pad site from the shortest side from the bumper to the road, which in this case would be the right side. So the left side should be a little bit longer. The angle of backing ( from the c.g. map and picture) looks to be advantageous as the road curves a little bit away from the site as it passes it to the left. That all sad I think I could get a 28ft. trailer in there, but the decision is yours and don't sue me if it doesn't work. And they don't measure your trailer when you come through the kiosk. That's a nice site as far as Upper Pines goes.

Quotemtn man
Vitamininsea, an old printout I have of pad sizes for sites shows that pad to be 22x22, with 7 ft. clearance behind the bumpers. This is a double wide site. The pictures show a considerable wide open space behind the back parking bumpers so you should be able to hang multiple feet of your trailer over past the bumpers, if you put it on the left side. The left side is probably longer than 22 ft. as they usually measured the pad site from the shortest side from the bumper to the road, which in this case would be the right side. So the left side should be a little bit longer. The angle of backing ( from the c.g. map and picture) looks to be advantageous as the road curves a little bit away from the site as it passes it to the left. That all sad I think I could get a 28ft. trailer in there, but the decision is yours and don't sue me if it doesn't work. And they don't measure your trailer when you come through the kiosk. That's a nice site as far as Upper Pines goes.

Do you have those old text file printouts of the site dimensions? I used to have those, about 3 computers ago. Mad that I probably lost them!

Not necessarily. Depends what happens during the bankruptcy proceedings. Some other company might takeover the cloud storage portion of the bankrupt company.

And while nothing is certain in life (except death and taxes), there is probably a good chance that cloud storage solutions offered by some companies like Amazon will probably outlive our own lives. Of course, one never knows for sure..

Quotemtn man
Vitamininsea, an old printout I have of pad sizes for sites shows that pad to be 22x22, with 7 ft. clearance behind the bumpers. This is a double wide site. The pictures show a considerable wide open space behind the back parking bumpers so you should be able to hang multiple feet of your trailer over past the bumpers, if you put it on the left side. The left side is probably longer than 22 ft. as they usually measured the pad site from the shortest side from the bumper to the road, which in this case would be the right side. So the left side should be a little bit longer. The angle of backing ( from the c.g. map and picture) looks to be advantageous as the road curves a little bit away from the site as it passes it to the left. That all sad I think I could get a 28ft. trailer in there, but the decision is yours and don't sue me if it doesn't work. And they don't measure your trailer when you come through the kiosk. That's a nice site as far as Upper Pines goes.[/quote

]Do you have those old text file printouts of the site dimensions? I used to have those, about 3 computers ago. Mad that I probably lost them!

I have hard copies that have a print out date of 2004. Looks like they are just for Lower and Upper Pines. I'll take a better look at them tomorrow and figure out a way to scan them and put them up on this web site.

Quotemtn man
Still working on trying to get Lower Pines dimensions onto a post similar to the way Pinecone did it. Will probably have to get my daughter to help me with it. Stay tuned.....

Aw heck, even though I'm a tent camper, I certainly feel a kinship with all campers, including RVers. Who knows, I may be one of you in my golden years.Heaven knows, you RV folks have provided me with some wonderful entertainment on occasion, at dinner time as I relax drinking a beer while grilling.The scene: a behemoth RV comes lumbering into the campground just as the sun is beginning to set, and proceeds to make 14 attempts to back intoa sharply-angled parking pad just barely large enough to hold it, while the husband at the wheel squabbles out the window with his wife, who (in his opinion)is doing a very poor job of guiding him into the site. "I said my left not your left!" the wife snaps back, and "You're too far over to the right!",while the husband snaps back "well how much room do I have on that side?!" This campground drama goes on for a good 10 or 15 minutes sometimes,better theater than any program they have scheduled over at the Lower Pines amphitheater!

I've seen this same performance with many different actors in the roles on numerous occasions over the years, but it never gets old!

To you noble souls, a campground toast to you! I present your parking pad dimensions for Lower Pines, North Pines, and Upper Pines:

Quotemtn man
Still working on trying to get Lower Pines dimensions onto a post similar to the way Pinecone did it. Will probably have to get my daughter to help me with it. Stay tuned.....

Aw heck, even though I'm a tent camper, I certainly feel a kinship with all campers, including RVers. Who knows, I may be one of you in my golden years.Heaven knows, you RV folks have provided me with some wonderful entertainment on occasion, at dinner time as I relax drinking a beer while grilling.The scene: a behemoth RV comes lumbering into the campground just as the sun is beginning to set, and proceeds to make 14 attempts to back intoa sharply-angled parking pad just barely large enough to hold it, while the husband at the wheel squabbles out the window with his wife, who (in his opinion)is doing a very poor job of guiding him into the site. "I said my left not your left!" the wife snaps back, and "You're too far over to the right!",while the husband snaps back "well how much room do I have on that side?!" This campground drama goes on for a good 10 or 15 minutes sometimes,better theater than any program they have scheduled over at the Lower Pines amphitheater!

I've seen this same performance with many different actors in the roles on numerous occasions over the years, but it never gets old!

I do worry about the possibility that someone takes out a kid riding a bike. Especially if said kid isn't wearing a helmet as required by California law.

However, I do remember someone trying to back in a trailer and who then proceeding to take out my site's site number post. This was at a Forest Service campground where a slip is filled out by hand, someone writes down the site number of the back, and you're supposed to clip it to the post via a binder clip. The post was plastic and sprang right back up, but it tore off a piece of that slip.

Seriously, some of the access issues for the sites are trees, rocks, posts and...if the site across from you is occupied...especially if they are parked right next to the roadway. Not only the size of the pad.

We have had a site the past few years that the trailer size was limited to 12 feet, but it was a double driveway, making manuevering into the site easy for a 22 foot fifth wheel.

Also if the trailer is a pull trailer or if the truck is a long bed (as compared to a fifth wheel or a short bed truck,) access is further limited. Then driver experience also comes into play.

This info is for other folks reading this with interest...if you have a double wide site, you should be able to manuever into it.

As stated above, often it has nothing to do with the size of the parking pad, and more to do with maneuverability. I know there are entire loops in North and Lower Pines that large rigs cannot make the turn down, yet the pads are large enough....

Quoteyoser
As stated above, often it has nothing to do with the size of the parking pad, and more to do with maneuverability. I know there are entire loops in North and Lower Pines that large rigs cannot make the turn down, yet the pads are large enough....

Quoteyoser
As stated above, often it has nothing to do with the size of the parking pad, and more to do with maneuverability. I know there are entire loops in North and Lower Pines that large rigs cannot make the turn down, yet the pads are large enough....

Very true.

Yes, very true. What a lot of folks tend to forget (or don't know) is the fact that these campground were laid out many years ago,back before RVs roughly the same size as the Titanic existed. Back then it was primarily station wagons and pickup trucks towingpop-up tent trailers...

Couldn't all of this heart-stopping hand-wringing worry be sidestepped by simply bulldozing camp 4 and making it an RV vehicle site only, in preparation for the next generation of behemoths? just a thought.